Dale's Songwriting Video. Part 1

In part 1 of this 2 part series, multi talented guitarist, vocalist, and MI instructor, Dale Turner, shows us how to spice up a basic chord progression with Secondary Dominants, Modal Interchange, and different chord inversions.

Chord charts may have helped, but they're not necessary in order to learn something. I definitely picked up a lot from that without seeing charts. Dale's definitely been rocking since the Guitar One days, and he's not slowing down! Another fantastic video from Kole and co.!

I get the gist... though I think I may need to back-track a bit though... the shifting bass notes thing may help now. I normally just let ring the individual notes of power chords in accoustic stuff (suffic it to say, it's sounds really bad) and this might help improve my band's 3rd song intro.

Thanks for checking this video out, you guys!! I was just trying to make it a demonstration of how certain things people study in "theory" (which I'm sure some people on here are getting into... at school... out of books, or whatever) can be used to make a basic progression more interesting. It's not as much about "what" I'm playing as much as walking away with the idea that, if you have certain things under your belt, you can *experiment* more, and hopefully end up wth less-generic stuff. Hopefully the 2nd part shows up soon!!! It was fun :

I think the dominant function of the fifth chord in a major scale was explained quite poorly. It does not need to have the 7th note attached to it to be dominant. Just try and play C - F - G - C, and you can hear the tension. However, adding the 7th note (making it a G7, as shown in the video), will enhance the dominant function, almost forcing you to go back to the root chord? (is it called a 'tonic' chord? - i only know the names of these things in danish, so correct me if I'm wrong).

And, to put some truth in to Dale's words: Every time you encounter a major chord with the 7th note attached to it in a song, it's almost the dominant to the following chord every time.

Nevertheless, great tab, nice seeing some theory actually being put to use! And explaining the thing with shifting root notes was nice to, keep up the nice work Dale.

Dale, I thought your video was GREAT.... Helped me understand how to spice things up a bit. I hope you share more of your talents soon. You ARE helping people, that is a great gift. Thanks for teaching... that alone makes you special. Can you imagine what this world would be like without people like yourself. Thanks again